Telling people to do something like YC instead of Shark Tank is like telling people to do YC instead of appearing on The Tonight Show.
Here's a guy perfectly justified if he said "I am much more brilliant than everyone else". This take over the world thing is quite new amongst tech entrepreneurs. From my understanding.. he knew he was onto something big, but super-billionaire was not in the expectations.
It's a little fascinating to me that culturally, we look down upon people who talk about dominating their opponents, but look up to people who say nothing but actually do dominate their opponents. But then, I suppose it fits with "actions speak louder than words".
Funny, after building many things, I'm starting to think the only thing that matters is marketing. It certainly isn't the tech or product quality.
Additionally, the article does not mention Chris Sacca guested in Shark Tank.